Blue Grass FWA on a windy day.....

Late yesterday afternoon we drove to Blue Grass to see what might be out and about.  It was getting overcast and the wind was blowing.....not great conditions :-)

 This big soft-shelled turtle was sitting in the road....making it easy to photograph.

Such an odd critter.  At least it wasn't blowing in the wind like everything else I saw.

This cowbird had just taken a bath in a puddle and was shaking itself off in the wind. 

Most of the birds we saw were in trees that were swaying back and forth.  I have trouble keeping up with the rhythm of the swaying.  This is a Dickcissel. 

A "headless" Indigo Bunting :-)....oh, well..... 

One of the first things we saw was a Killdeer in a field.  It must have a mate on a nest nearby, because it immediately started running in the opposite direction and making lots of displays to get my attention away from the nest. 

We were sitting in a car and not really much of a threat, but it went through a lot of posturing for us. 

It was fanning its tail and carrying on, and really wanted us to go away.  I was more concerned about the farmer that was plowing a distant part of the field.....hope the nest is real close to the road and out of harms way.

 A Meadowlark way up in a swaying tree with something in its mouth.  Taking food home to the nest maybe?

 Not real sharp....couldn't catch the rhythm, once again.  It sat there a long time.  

 A Robin not swaying in the wind :-)

 Red-wing blackbird.

The moody sky 

I thought these were pretty....some sort of crown vetch, I think.